Grobian

Quick meaning: Grobian is a noun meaning (dated, derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.

Meaning

(dated, derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.

Example Sentences

[B]eware of men who love not fly leaves neither regard margins, but write notes over the latter, and light their pipes with the former. […] To such fellows it matters not that they make a book dirty and greasy, cutting the pages with their fingers, and holding the boards over the fire till they crack. All these slatternly practices, though they destroy a book as surely as the flames of Caesar's soldiers at Alexandria, seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them.

Word Forms

• grobians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include galoot, barbarian, gurrier, troglodyte, rough, peasant.

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